The Orion and Orion II have shown a history of problems related to corrosion building up on the cable connections in the radio. These connections should have been gold plated but they are not. In par
Elecraft had the same problem with the K3. But they now do a free upgrade to gold contacts. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com On 3/19/2014 8:08 PM, Bob McGraw - K4TAX
I believe that is the exact point where the 2.4 hardware filter gets put into the receive path. About 2.4 khz, it's not in the path. There's a filter centering adjustment for each filter and that wou
I guess I remembered incorrectly on the Orion II. Thanks Barry for straightening me out on this one. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com There's a menu adjustment to cen
Back around 1980, I used to run a Heath HW-8, CW only 2 watt radio, mobile in my car. I would routinely work a European driving to work each morning from North Carolina. QRP works! Carl Moreschi N4PY
Year's ago I also had a Gonset GSB-100. It was a great radio and I worked lots of DX with it's 60 watts. I used it with a Collins 75A1. That was my first real station back in 1976. Carl Moreschi N4PY
Sounds like RF feedback. This can be a tough one to figure out. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com On 2/24/2014 5:29 PM, Scott Shepard wrote: I am going thru a variety
The Omni VII, Omni VI, and Icom 7800 all seem to be about a tie on the Sherwood test data. The Omni VII is an excellent radio and has much better receive audio than the pinched audio on the Omni VI.
I think the extra BDR3 for the inrad filter is best suited for 160 meter CW DXing where the DX station is only 2 khz away from the callers. The callers 2 khz away on 160 can easily be S9+30 and the D
The band crystals may be aging. I found my 40 meter crystal worked best if I moved it about 2 khz from where it was supposed to be and then used the N4PY calibration procedure to bring it back it. Yo
I said this before and I will say this again. Rob Sherwood agrees with me on this. And I know I am going to get beat up on this but I'm tired of hearing wrong things about RF gain. RF gain has absolu
I'm not saying there won't be situations where the signal will be more comfortable to listen to by reducing RF gain, I'm just saying that from a pure physics point of view, the signal to noise ratio
My N4PY Pegasus Plus program controls the rx320D very well. See n4py.com Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com On 12/5/2013 10:55 AM, Will Jones wrote: Does TenTec still h
Sounds like an RFI problem to me. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com On 12/5/2013 5:43 PM, Rod Greene wrote: I just installed a new to me microKeyer II. Trying to follo
The Orion brings up the amp key line 15 msec before transmit comes on. The real test is lower the power output to minimum. If this fixes it then RFI is the problem. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd L
Yes the 301 knob will work with the Paragon II. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com Is there a way to set up the Paragon II to use the 301 Remote Tuning Knob? I ran acro
I would leave it alone. The 38 ohm antenna is excellent. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com I DO have a 40m ground plan with 65 radials. And it has that textbook 38 ohm
How much coax did you add? The main idea of open wire line is it is much less lossy than coax at high SWR's. You therefore want to keep the coax portion is short as practical. The SWR on the feedline
That's a new one on me. How could loss be less with high SWR on a short length of coax? It makes no sense. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com On 11/9/2013 5:07 PM, Stev
I say it's 50-50 whether it's a high impedance or low impedance at the coax connection point. We don't know how long the open wire line is so the high SWR line could have rotated to anything that wou